Who was the Knight of the Round Table who found the Holy Grail? | Reference.com Who was the Knight of the Round Table who found the Holy Grail? A: Quick Answer In most later versions of the King Arthur legends, Lancelot's illegitimate son Sir Galahad finds the Holy Grail. His success is ascribed to his purity and his great piety. Full Answer In versions of the King Arthur story told from the time of Sir Thomas Malory and later, Galahad, accompanied by Sir Perceval of Gales and Sir Bors, visits Galahad's grandfather King Pelles. Here, the three knights see a ship with a vision of the Grail. This ship takes them to the legendary holy island-city of Sarras near Egypt. At Sarras, Galahad heals a sick man by touching him. The king of Sarras invites him to the castle, where he first imprisons all three knights, then releases them and crowns Galahad king. A year after Galahad's assumption of the throne, he has another vision of the Grail and chooses to die, going directly to heaven.

The Quest for the Holy Grail - The Legend of King Arthur The Quest for the Holy Grail Chapter VII: The Quest for the Holy Grail The Holy Grail has become a central theme in Arthurian literature. Some historians have traced its association with Arthur as far back as some of the earliest legends about him. But the Grail first began to shine as a major Christian symbol in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, particularly with the circulation of the Vulgate Cycle, written by an unknown author. On the eve before Pentecost, a beautiful woman came to Arthur's castle, and asked Lancelot to follow her into the forest. Lancelot, always the chivalrous knight, agreed, and the two went out. They rode until they came to a nunnery. As they entered it, Lancelot saw that two of his cousins, Sir Bors and Sir Lionel, were already there. Then the nuns brought out a young man and asked Lancelot to knight him. Lancelot agreed, and the youth was knighted.

The next day, as he and his cousins were riding back to Arthur's castle, Sir Bors remarked that the young man had looked so much like Lancelot, it must have been his son by Elaine. When Lancelot returned to Camelot, the knights were all summoned to meet at the Round Table. As he took his seat, he saw that there was now an inscription above the Siege Perilous. It read: “Four Hundred and Fifty Years Have Passed Since The Passion Of Our Lord Jesus Christ: And On The Day Of Pentecost This Seat Shall Find Its Master.” As their meeting began, an elderly knight entered the hall. With him was the young man Lancelot had knighted the evening before. He was Galahad, Lancelot's son by Elaine. He took his rightful place at the Siege Perilous. Shortly later, an image of the Holy Grail appeared, floating over the table. It was a sign. It was time for Arthur and his knights to seek out the Grail. In the adventure that followed, Galahad quickly proved himself to be the greatest knight of all time.

Whereas his father had been charismatic and charming, Galahad was pure of heart, and refrained from much temptation in order to pursue more heavenly ideals. Many of Arthur's knights sought out the Grail, but most returned badly wounded, or worse. Then three knights went out in search of it: Sir Bors, Sir Perceval, and Sir Galahad. They traveled to Corbenic by ship to seek out Galahad's grandfather, King Pellés. When the knights arrived, they were met by a host of Galahad's family from Elaine's side. Then, King Pellés brought out a sword that had been broken in three pieces. When Galahad held them, the sword became whole again. It was a sign. Galahad was given a vision, and he was shown wonders beyond any mortal men can imagine. When he came out of his trance, he knew what had to be done. The Grail was in Britain, he said. But Camelot was unworthy of it. The knights were to take the Grail to the holy city of Sarras in the Middle East, to fulfill God's will.

When the three knights returned to their ship, they found the Grail already waiting for them there. They took it to the city of Sarras, just as they had been instructed. There, a great light appeared in the sky, and the Grail was lifted up into Heaven, forever beyond the reach of men. Of the three knights who had ridden out in search of the Grail, only Sir Bors returned to Camelot to tell of what had happened. For Sir Perceval was moved by all he had seen, and chose to live out the remainder of his days as a hermit living in the forests outside Sarras. And Sir Galahad, having seen his vision of the Grail, died shortly after. For he gave up his life so he could remain pure. Camelot, King Arthur & the Knights of the Round Table Camelot, King Arthur & the Knights of the Round Table By Owen Jarus, Live Science Contributor | April 23, 2013 07:27pm ET MORE King Arthur and his knights return to Camelot after a tournament. This image is from a 14th-century manuscript.

Credit: Public domain Camelot was a mythical castled city, said to be located in Great Britain, where King Arthur held court. It was the center of the Kingdom of Logres and in Arthurian legend would become the location of the round table that held 150 knights. French origins Although mentioned briefly in a 12th-century poem by Chrétien de Troyes, the earliest detailed description of Camelot would emerge during the 13th century in a series of French romances we call the Vulgate and Post-Vulgate cycles. “In the thirteenth-century Vulgate Cycle, Camelot becomes the principal city of Arthur's realm and remains so in many, though certainly not all, later texts,” writes a team of University of Rochester researchers working on the Camelot project . Researcher Norris Lacy writes that the Vulgate Cycle was composed between 1215 and 1235 by an anonymous author or group of authors.

“This cycle of five imposing romances can only be termed monumental, owing in equal measure to its enormous length, its complexity and literary value and influence,” she writes in the preface to the five volume book "Lancelot-Grail: The Old French Arthurian Vulgate and Post-Vulgate in Translation" (Garland Publishing, 1993). “The romances run to several thousand pages of text, and they offer many hundreds of characters and countless adventures intricately interlaced with one another.” She also notes that the Post-Vulgate Cycle was written shortly afterward, again by an anonymous author. In these cycles, Camelot would be discussed in detail. The text says, in translation, that it “was the city most full of adventures that ever was ...” Although located in Great Britain, its world was a place that included magicians, giants, dragons and, of course, many knights. Early Camelot The story of Camelot starts with Joseph of Arimathea, who according to the Bible donated his tomb for the burial of Jesus. According to a Vulgate story, he came to Britain and then to Camelot, finding it to be an Islamic city.

“It was the richest of the Saracen cities in Great Britain, and it was so important that the pagan kings were crowned there, and its mosque was larger and taller than in any other city,” part of the text reads (translation by Carol Chase). Joseph succeeded in converting more than 1,000 of its inhabitants to Christianity. Its king, a leader named Agrestes, who is described as being the “cruelest man in the world,” falsely converted. After Joseph leaves, Agrestes persecutes the Christians, eventually going completely mad and throwing himself into a fire. Joseph then returns and sees that Camelot has converted to Christianity, “in the middle of the city he had the Church of St. Stephen the Martyr built,” the text reads. This building would remain Camelot’s largest church throughout the Vulgate cycles with additional, smaller, churches also being built. Camelot in King Arthur’s time Camelot was a city surrounded by forests and meadows with plenty of open space for knightly tournaments (which were held frequently). When a tournament was held, wooden reviewing stands for the ladies and maidens would be set up, one of which is mentioned as running for half a league (about 2.5 kilometers).

The text said that Camelot was a “rich and well provided town” but offers few details as to its layout or exact size. It was small enough that during a particularly lavish court so many barons and nobles came that “not a tenth of them could be lodged in the city of Camelot, and the others found shelter in the meadowland, which was wide and beautiful, in tents and pavilions,” (translation by Rupert Pickens). The church of St. Stephen apparently contained a large burial ground as numerous knights are mentioned as being interred there. Indeed, Camelot saw more than its share of wars in the Vulgate stories. The city’s defences were formidable, surviving a war against the Saxons and another invasion in which the Saxons were aided by Cornishmen. “After the bridges were raised and the gates shut, they [a group of knights] climbed high on the walls to see whether or not the Saxons were coming to storm the city, but the Saxons did not have the will,” reads a section of one story (translation by Rupert Pickens).

The text says that Arthur held court in a castle (or a tower as it’s sometimes called) furnished with a main courtyard, bedrooms, areas for feasting and, apparently, the Round Table. The castle is close enough to a body of water so that in one story Arthur could see a boat coming into Camelot holding what turned out to be a dead maiden. While tournaments are held frequently the people of Camelot also enjoyed other, less-violent, forms of recreation. In one story, Lancelot gives King Arthur a fine chess set, knowing that Queen Guinevere is a good player. According to one story, an inscription was found saying that the quest for the Holy Grail (a quest discussed at length in the Vulgate) must begin 453 years after the resurrection of Jesus. This gives a rough date for when Camelot was said to be flourishing. In this image depicting Arthur's Whitsun feast, the Companions of the Quest tell him of their adventures. Credit: Public domain Round Table The most famous aspect of Camelot is certainly its Round Table, and the Vulgate cycles discuss in depth how King Arthur came to possess it.

According to the text, it was a wedding gift from Guinevere’s father, King Leodagan of Carmelide, after Arthur asked her hand in marriage. At the time, there were already 100 knights (out of 150) who were members of the table. This led Arthur to ask the magician Merlin to choose the remaining members to bring it to full complement, emphasizing that each must be chivalrous. When they were assembled, Merlin said that from “now on you must love one another and hold one another as dear as brothers, for from the love and sweetness of this table where you will be seated there will be born in your hearts such a great joy and friendship that you will leave your wives and children to be with one another and to spend your youth together,” (translation by Martha Asher). The names of the knights were engraved on their chairs. Merlin left one chair, called the “perilous” chair vacant, to be filled by a great knight (who would turn out to be Galahad, the son of Lancelot) at a time when the quest for the Holy Grail begins.

Galahad is also responsible for pulling a sword from a stone that is meant to be pulled by the strongest knight in the world. Needless to say, as the story goes on there are many deaths and members of the Round Table are replaced after they perish. By the end of the saga, after the death of King Arthur, nearly every Knight of the Round Table is dead. Piousness and betrayal In the Vulgate cycles, there appear to be two sides to Camelot. On the surface, the leaders of the city are pious, the king attends mass regularly, makes the sign of the cross when he hears bad news, chivalry is essential and vespers, a form of evening prayer, are held regularly. At times, battlefield enemies are even buried with honors. Yet some of the most senior people in the city engage in destructive behavior. Some of the stories discuss how Queen Guinevere and Lancelot (the most powerful knight of the realm) engage in an affair. When King Arthur finds out about this, he soon finds himself in a ruinous war with Lancelot.

A knight name Bors tells Lancelot that “now it’s going badly; now the affair is revealed; now a war will begin that will never end, and as much as the king has loved you until now – from his heart, more than any other man who was not of his kin – so much will he hate you from now on, once he knows truly the wrong you’ve done with his wife,” (translation by Martha Asher). In fact, at the end of this story it is not Lancelot who kills Arthur, but the king’s own son, Mordred. Entrusted with the kingdom of Logres while Arthur pursues Lancelot, he takes it over, forcing Arthur to confront him in a final battle. This betrayal of his father is foreshadowed in the appearance of an image of a dragon at St. Stephen’s church that is meant to represent Mordred.

In the final battle, the king attacks Mordred, “bearing down on him with all his force (he) struck him so hard that he ripped apart the links of Mordred’s hauberk and thrust the steel of his lance through his body.” Mordred repays his father in kind, when “Mordred saw the seriousness of his wound he realized that it would be fatal; and he struck King Arthur so powerfully on the helmet that nothing could protect his head, and the sword cut away part of his skull,” (translations by Norris Lacy). Mordred died and King Arthur would pass away soon afterward. “Thus did the father kill the son, and the son mortally wounded the father.” The final battle also claimed the lives of most of the Knights of the Round Table. Camelot’s last stand The story of Camelot does not end quite yet. According to the Post-Vulgate Cycle this would occur sometime after the death of Arthur. A ruler named King Mark of Cornwall, whom Arthur (with help from Galahad) had once defeated in battle, takes his revenge by launching a final invasion of the Kingdom of Logres.

He reaches Camelot, whose people are now without the protection of the Knights of the Round Table. King Mark “went to Camelot, whose people were few in comparison to his own, but they were of great heart and reputation, and they said they would not let themselves be besieged. They all rode forth from the city and fought with the enemy, but they were so few that they were all soon killed, so that none escaped...” the text reads (translation by Martha Asher). “King Mark entered the city and destroyed most of it,” it continues. “When he came to Round Table and saw Galahad’s place, he said, ‘this was his place who in a single day destroyed me and the Saxons. For hatred of him I’ll destroy the Round Table, his place first and after that all the others.” This was the end of Camelot and the Round Table. For the 13th-century readers this story may have provided a reason why they did not still exist. Camelot in later writings and culture During the 15th century, the Arthurian legends, Camelot included, would be published in English thanks to the work of Sir Thomas Malory.

His book, called "Morte d'Arthur," drew heavily on the French Vulgate cycles in addition to other Arthurian sources. “Though little is known about Malory himself, the influence of his work has been considerable. Writers such as Alfred Tennyson, T.H. White, John Steinbeck, Mark Twain, and countless others have encountered the Arthurian world through some version of Malory's work and reinterpreted it in their own writing,” writes researcher Kara McShane in an article republished on the website of the University of Rochester’s Camelot Project. Indeed in the 20th century the idea of Camelot was powerful and, after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, the name was used as a term used to describe the years of his presidency. Perhaps one of the most beautiful post-medieval written works on Camelot comes from an 1833 poem by Alfred Tennyson called The Lady of Shalott .

The start of the 1833 version reads: On either side the river lie Long fields of barley and of rye, That clothe the wold and meet the sky; And thro' the field the road runs by To many-tower'd Camelot; Sir Galahad | King Arthur & The Knights of the Round Table Sir Galahad Galahad was the natural son of Launcelot. His name may be of Welsh origin or come from the place name Gilead in Palestine. His mother was Elaine, and he was placed in a nunnery as a child, being that the abbess there was his great aunt. One day a sword in a stone was seen in a river by Arthur's knights, and it was said that only the world's best knight could pull out the sword. Galahad was led into Arthur's court where he sat in the Siege Perilous and then drew the sword out. It was later on when the Grail appeared in a vision at Arthur's court that Galahad was one of the three knights chosen to undertake the Quest for the Holy Grail.

He was given a white shield, made by Evelake, with a red cross which Joseph of Arimathea had drawn in blood. In the course of the Quest he joined up with Percivale, Bors, and Percivale's sister. On board Solomon's ship, Galahad obtained the Sword of David, and after the death of Percivale's sister the trio split up for a while and Galahad traveled with his father, Launcelot. When the three rejoined forces they came to Carbonek and achieved the Grail. Galahad mended the broken sword, and therefore, He was allowed to see the Grail. After beholding the Holy Grail, Galahad requested of Joseph of Arimathea that he die, which request was granted unto him. Galahad was always known as the "Perfect Knight". He was "perfect" in courage, gentleness, courtesy, and chivalry. The Knights Of The Round Table - Who & How Many? The Knights Of The Round Table The Knights Of The Round Table Read more about the Knights of the Round Table If the Knights of the Round Table ever existed in real life, it wasn’t in the time of King Arthur.

Medieval knights as characterised in Arthurian Legend belong to a period running from the twelfth to the fifteenth centuries – the historical King Arthur is placed much earlier, around the fifth century. Nonetheless, the image of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table appeals to the imagination and has become an accepted one, if only in literature and legend. Knights, as such, were real enough – and still are: people become knighted in Britain even today. Medieval knights were usually of noble birth: kings, princes, dukes, earls, and barons, who formed the backbone of any army of the time. They could afford armour and weapons, and the cost of training and maintaining their war-horse: in medieval times, the armoured warrior on horseback was the equivalent to the modern tank. Glory in war spilled over into peacetime, with attitude and status and knightly pursuits like jousting and heraldry, hunting and hawking, and a chivalrous way of life (especially towards the ladies, as the knight became the archetypal hero of high romance).

Knights were also formed into religious or other ‘Orders of Chivalry’ – like the Round Table – and made an oath to protect the distressed, maintain the right, and live a stainless existence. The Round Table The consensus is that Merlin the Wizard created the legendary Round Table – in a shape symbolising the roundness of the universe – for Uther Pendragon, Arthur’s father. When Uther died, it passed to Guinevere’s father, King Laudegraunce, and then to King Arthur when he married Guinevere. Real or symbolic, the Round Table for the fellowship of knights has remained a powerful and appealing concept for several hundreds of years. The Round Table was first mentioned by the French poet, Wace, in 1155 and in that account was made round so that all the knights seated around it would have the same stature – a table with no head to sqabble over. In Arthurian legend it wasn’t just an actual table but represented the highest Order of Chivalry at King Arthur’s court. The Knights of the Round Table were the cream of British nobility, who followed a strict code of honour and service.

There is a big Round Table hanging on the wall of Winchester Castle, which names 25 shields. Sir Thomas Malory in Le Morte d’Arthur identifies Camelot as the English town of Winchester (disputed by William Caxton, Malory’s own publisher, who asserts that Camelot was in Wales) and there has been a long and popular association between King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table and the actual Winchester Round Table, but its origin has been dated to around 1270, the start of the reign of King Edward I – like the knights, well after Arthur’s time. In literature, the Round Table varies in size according to which author is decribing it. The consensus is that it seated 150, with one chair – the Siège Perilous (‘danger-seat’) – which no-one could occupy safely except for the true Grail-Knight: the knight destined to achieve the Holy Grail, or Sangreal , a symbolism sometimes linked to the Last Supper, which had one place for Judas of ill-omen.

The Grail-Knight – it was said that the Siège Perilous was reserved for Sir Perceval, then later, Sir Galahad – was required to be a hero with the purest heart, who was chaste and a virgin without sins (which disqualified Sir Lancelot from the start). The breakdown of the seating arrangements is this: King Laudegraunce brought 100 when he gave the table to King Arthur, Merlin filled up 28 of the vacant seats, and King Arthur elected Sir Gawain and Sir Tor – the remaining 20 seats, including the danger-seat, were left for those who might prove worthy. Arthurian legend also contains reference to lesser Orders: the Queen’s Knights, the Knights of the Watch, the Table of Errant Companions, and the Table of Less-Valued Knights, which could explain, in a literary sense, why the Round Table would be so large, though it must have been ring-shaped rather than a round normal table, otherwise most of its surface would have been unreachable.

King Arthur’s Knights The names of the 25 knights inscribed on the Winchester Round Table are given as: • King Arthur, Sir Galahad, Sir Lancelot du Lac , Sir Gawain, Sir Percivale, Sir Lionell, Sir Bors de Ganis, Sir Kay, Sir Tristram de Lyones, Sir Gareth, Sir Bedivere, Sir Bleoberis, La Cote Male Taile, Sir Lucan, Sir Palomedes, Sir Lamorak, Sir Safer, Sir Pelleas, Sir Ector de Maris, Sir Dagonet, Sir Degore, Sir Brunor le Noir, Le Bel Desconneu, Sir Alymere, and Sir Mordred. In Le Morte d’Arthur, Sir Thomas Malory refers to a much more impressive force: • Sir Aglovale, Sir Agravaine, Sir Aliduke (Book 6, Chapter 9), King Anguish,of Ireland, Earl Aristause, Sir Arrok de Grevaunt (the epiphet only occurs in the Caxton edition), King Arthur, Sir Astamor.

• King Bagdemagus (Book 13, Chapter 9), Sir Barant le Apres (also called the King with the hundred knights), Sir Baudwin (Book 18, Chapter 12), Sir Bedivere, Sir Bellangere le Beuse, Sir Bellangere le Orgulous, Sir Belleus (Book 6, Chapter 18), Sir Blamore de Ganis, Sir Bleoberis de Ganis, Sir Bohart le Cure Hardy (the son of King Arthur, also called Sir Borre), Sir Bors de Ganis, Sir Brandiles, Sir Bruine le Noire (also called La Cote Male Taile), Sir Brian de Listinoise. • King Carados of Scotland, Sir Cardok, Duke Chaleins of Clarance, King Clarance of Northumberland, Sir Clarrus of Cleremont, Sir Clegis, Sir Cloddrus, Sir Colgrevance, Sir Constantine, Sir Crosselm, Sir Curselaine (Book 20, Chapter 2).

• Sir Darras, Sir Degrane Saunce Velany, Sir Degrevaunt (in Eugène Vinaver’s Winchester manuscript only), Sir Dinadan, Sir Dinas, Sir Dinas le Seneschal of Cornwall, Sir Dodinas le Savage, Sir Durnore, Sir Driant. • Sir Ector de Maris, Sir Edward of Carnarvon, Sir Edward of Orkney, Sir Epinogris, Sir Erminide (also called Sir Hermine). • Sir Tor, Sir Tristram (Book 10, Chapter 6). • Earl Ulbause, King Uriens of the land of Gore, Sir Urre (Book 19, Chapter 19), Sir Uwaine le Blanche Mains (also called Sir Uwaine le Fise de Roy Ureine – Book 9, Chapter 37), Sir Uwaine les Avoutres. • Sir Villiars the Valiant.

Since the King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table are all fictitious characters, there’s no right and wrong answer to the question “How many Knights did the Round Table have?” It’s purely a comparison between different pieces of Arthurian myth and legend – Malory’s was simply a much bigger table than the Winchester Table. More interesting are their deeds, exploits, and their social significance at the time the best and most comprehensive Arthurian legend works were written, most notably Le Morte d’Arthur , completed in the year 1470. Robert de Boron’s trilogy of poems Regarding the origins of the Holy Grail and its relationship with the Round Table, there are three especially interesting works of Arthurian legend – a trilogy of poems by Robert de Boron (a Burgundian knight who wrote not too long after Chrétien de Troyes c.1191): ‘Joseph of Arimathea’, ‘Merlin’, and ‘Perceval’, and which describe the ‘First Table and the Origin of the Grail’, ‘The Grail Dynasty’, ‘The Construction of the Third Table’, and ‘The Round Table and Perceval’.

The last one provides a particularly interesting insight into the Holy Grail and the motivations behind the exploits of the Knights of the Round Table: The Round Table and Perceval After Arthur is crowned king, Merlin informs the court about origins of the Round Table made by Joseph of Arimathea, and of the Grail family, and the attainment of the Grail. Perceval, the son of Alain le Gros, comes to Arthur’s court and is knighted, but he is not made a member of the Round Table. At Pentecost, King Arthur proclaims a festival at which twelve knights will sit at the Round Table, leaving the thirteenth seat empty to symbolise the seat occupied by Judas at the Last Supper. Perceval asks if he may sit there, and when Arthur attempts to discourage him, the other twelve knights plead on Perceval’s behalf and he is allowed to occupy the vacant seat. But the seat cracks beneath him and a voice remontrates against King Arthur, and says that Perceval has only been saved from a terrible death by the goodness of his father and his grandfather, Bron.

The voice goes on to predict that there will now be great suffering for those seated at the Round Table as they pursue the quest that Perceval has precipitated – the quest for the Holy Grail. The achievement of the quest will require one of the Round Table knights to become the ‘finest knight in the world’ by performing ‘feats of arms and goodness and prowess’. This knight will be guided by God to the house of the Rich Fisher King (Bron), where he will achieve the Grail, and understand its purpose. The Rich Fisher King will be then healed and the cracked seat at the Round Table will be restored. The end of Round Table These predictions are to be fulfilled by Sir Perceval, who becomes the new custodian of the Grail after the death of Bron. But the successful quest marks the beginning of the end of the fellowship of the Knights of the Round Table, now undermined by a lack of common-purpose, and the knights plan to go overseas to seek new challenges. Sir Kay persuades King Arthur that only an invasion of continental Europe will hold the Knights of the Round Table together in his service.

France (then Gaul) is duly conquered and the army of the emperor of Rome is defeated, but before he can march on Rome, King Arthur is forced to return to Britain to supress the treachery of Mordred, who has usurped the throne of Britain and is cohabiting with Arthur’s wife, Guinevere. He overcomes Mordred in Cornwall, then pursues him to Ireland where the traitor is finally killed, but Arthur is also fatally wounded, and is taken to Avalon for his wounds to be healed, but he never returns. On King Arthur’s conquest of Gaul, his forced return to Britain, and his consequent death, note Robert de Boron’s consistency with the writer Geoffrey of Monmouth in The Quest for the Holy Grail - King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table Heroic Archetypes How the Holy Grail Came to Camelot In this chapter sir Galahad is introduced as the last knight on the siege Perilous of the Round table. He is also introduced as the most holy knight in Logres. He had been knighted by sir Lancelot, and had retrieved the sword that had stuck the Dolorous stroke.

But as Merlin foretold once all the sieges, soon the fall of the king arthur would soon avail. Then out of nowhere a sunbeam had cut through the hall an riding on the beam was the Holy Grail. This is how the quest for the Holy Grail had started. So then almost all the knights of the round table searched in every direction from Logres. The First Adventures of Sir Galahad In his first quest, sir Galahad had rode out into the forest for three to four days with no quest to partake. Soon e had come across some monks who had kindly unarmed him and led him to the guest chamber. In there he had met two other knights who had come here in search for the wondrous shield located in the abbey. The shield is said to be worn by a great knight that will achieve the quest of the holy grail. One of the two other knights attempt to wear the shield, but is badly wounded by a mysterious knight in white whose name is to e never known. The white knight tells the wounded knight that that shield only belongs to the holy knight Galahad. This is how Galahad receives his last talisman and continues to adventure into the forest.

The Adventures of Sir Percivale In his quest for the Holy Grail, Percivale is challenged to a duel by sir Galahad unknowingly it was him. Percivale had lost and been knocked of his horse. With his anger and envy growing he had wished to know who was the knight with the whites shield bearing a cross upon it. along the way e had met a damsel who would mend a treat wounds for those who had ask for it. She had explained that the knight he had jousted with was Sir Galahad. She said for Percivale to no longer envy and have hatred over such petty things as pride. So then he went off in his quest. He then was attacked by over 20 knights outnumbering him. His horse had slain and he was surrounded, and as if out of nowhere came a knight riding in almost like a lightning bolt bearing a shield with a red cross upon it. The knights that had attacked Percival had gone flying dead left and right, but with fear some had fled. Percivale had seen this shield and ran after Galahad pleading him to stop.

Galahad had been to fast and in a few mere minutes, Percivale could no longer hear the hoof beats of Galahad's horse. Here he had met a strange damsel who had offered him a horse, so strong and large. He had mounted on it in hopes of catching up to Galahad but along the way there had been a river that would definitely kill him if he had tried to cross it. He yielded the horse to stop but to no avail the horse would not stop nor could he dismount. He had prayed to god and from some mysterious force the horse had buckled him off and the horse ran straight into the river almost as if the water was burning him. He had later rested. Upon his awakening he was confronted with another mysterious damsel. She had asked Percivale's hand in love. This he had almost accepted until he thought of his lady Blanchefleur who would have been waiting for him at the castle. So as soon in this realization he stopped momentarily before the kiss and prayed out to god and almost instantly the lady was swept out to sea with a fierce wind almost as if hte water hadurned after her.

The Adventures of Sir Bors de Gannis After leaving the company of Aglovale and Griflet, Gawaine soon got bored with the lack of violence and the endless, pointless wandering, until after Michaelmas, he met Launcelot's brother, Sir Ector, who said everyone else had the same problem too, and no-one had seen Launcelot, Galahad, Percivale, or Bors.Sleeping in an old, abandoned chapel eight days later, Gawaine dreamed of 147 hungry black bulls and went off seeking better pasture (them), and two white (Galahad and Percivale) and one white with a black spot (Bors). Ector, however, dreamed of his brother Launcelot riding an ass to find the source of a well that emptied when he himself tried to drink of it.When they awoke they were both castigated by a floating hand, and went in search of a hermit, hoping for an explanation.

Picking a random joust, Gawaine soon stupidly killed his own cousin and best friend Uwaine, and after a tearful funeral, stumbled across a hermit called Nacien (not the same one as Launcelot's great-great-great-great-grandfather, buried near Galahad's shield in the White Abbey), who listened to Gawaine and Ector recount their dreams, and yet again explained that they were far too sinful to achieve the Sangreal - even Launcelot (because he had been adulterous with Guenevere for twenty-four years). Gawaine and Ector then rode on, for a long time failing to find any adventure. After leaving Camelot (and, like the others, never thinking of looking for the Sangreal where it was last seen, in Castle Corbin), Sir Bors quickly found his own hermit, who gave him a red coat to wear as a sign of chastisement.He soon also recovered the lands a maiden had received from King Aniause by overcoming an older woman's champion, Sir Pridam le Noire.

He moved on for stranger adventures (virtuously having refrained from temptation) and came across (and was forced to abandon) his brother Lionel - who was being thorn-lashed naked by a couple of perverts - in order to save the virginity of a nearby maiden from an evil knight. By the time he had saved her and set out to find his brother, all he found was a battered corpse, which he duly entombed in an old chapel by a high tower.The attendant priest explained that he would soon face another choice, between a woman who would die if he didn't take her and his uncle, Launcelot, who would die if he did. Fortunately, when the temptress made her appearance he let her and her twelve handmaidens jump off the high tower rather than loosen his breeches, and they all turned out to be fiends in disguise after all. The next Abbot explained everything, and Bors went his way.He made for a joust between the Earl of Plains and "the lady's nephew of Hervin", where he discovered his brother Lionel was alive after all, but enraged, promising to kill Bors for having abandoned him.

Lionel slew a priest (and Sir Colgrevence who got in the way), and was only saved from fratricide by a mysterious cloud that came down and told Bors to retreat towards the sea. At the coast, he was picked up by Percivale in the priest's ship - the ship that had rescued him from his own island of temptation - and they sailed away to search for Galahad. The End of the Quest Galahad comes to King Mordrayns (or Evelake), who has waited for him for four-hundred years. Mordrayns embraces him and dies. Galahad rides on and comes to the lake of fire, a symbol of lechery (traditionally an emblem of hell itself). He puts his hand in the water and it cools. Then in the country of Gore, Galahad visits a burning tomb. The fire ceases and the body that has lain burning in the tomb for three hundred and fifty-four years, in punishment for a sin against Joseph of Aramathy, is reburied at Galahad's command.

At last he finds Percival and Bors, and they all ride to Corbenic, the Castle of the Maimed King, Pellam. There they see marvels and Galahad heals Pellam. Now Galahad, Bors, and Percival are guided to their ship, where they find the Grail. Galahad prays and is granted the right to choose his time of death. At last they arrive at Sarras, where Percival's dead sister awaits them, as predicted. Galahad heals a cripple. Immediately afterward, the three knights are thrown into prison by a Saracen; but prison is no discomfort — the Grail comes to them and spreads feasts. After a time the Saracen king falls sick, calls them out of prison to ask their forgiveness, and dies. The city, guided by a voice out of heaven, makes Galahad king. At the year's end, Galahad sees a vision of Christ among his angels and asks to be raised to Him. He dies and his two friends see his soul born to heaven. Percival becomes a religious hermit and Bors eventually returns to Arthur's sadly diminished court. Create a free website

Question: Which Knight of the Round Table found the Holy Grail?
Answer: Sir Galahad